U.S.-Iran relations

U.S.-Iranian relations, the interrelationship between Iranian development and the global oil market, and the future of economic warfare.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.

As President Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up, it's worth recalling a time when the two countries had a different relationship.

The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.

Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.

The story of the oil shocks of 1973 and how they continue to shape the world we live in today.

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.

For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.